Lead press release written for FOCUSED HEALTH SOLUTIONS for the launch of its CareAnalyzer data mining technology platform at the Seventh Annual World Health Congress. FHS is a leading provider of population health management solutions.
7 Strategies to Improve HEDIS Scores and Star RatingsHealthx
In recent years, achieving high scores on HEDIS® measures and Medicare Star Ratings has taken on greater importance for health plans. What was once nice-to-have for marketing purposes has become a must-have for operating in certain lines of business. Here’s why: NCQA Health Plan Accreditation, financial bonuses, and even a plan’s ability to enroll members can be affected by their ratings. If HEDIS Scores and Star Ratings are so important, why don’t more plans work to improve them?
Population Health Management, Predictive Analytics, Big Data and Text AnalyticsFrank Wang
HCAD 6635 Health Information Analytics session 12
Population Health Management Analytics
Predictive Analytics
Big Data and its potential applications in Healthcare
Text Analytics
Public Health Analytics
Integrate healthcare data from various sources to improve the quality of care...sambiswal
With EHR implementation, meaningful use, ACO and HIE interoperability, mergers, and interface engine conversion, the demand for data integration is endless. Scalable Health Data Integration services help healthcare organizations to quickly ingest, prepare and deliver clinical, patient, financial and operational data from diverse sources, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Leveraging heterogeneous datasets and securely linking them has the potential to improve healthcare by identifying the right treatment for the right individual.
Effective Healthcare Decision Support for Executives: Three Problems that Lea...Health Catalyst
In the high-pressured world of value-based care, healthcare leadership is more important than ever. Leaders need to make data-driven decisions and respond to the increasing demands of patients while cutting costs.
The right tools–ones that support today’s outcome-focused healthcare environment–can help leaders break through the noise to make effective decisions. This article shares three common problems faced by healthcare leadership and how Leading Wisely, an executive decision support tool helps them make informed decisions and guide their organizations forward. Three effective strategies for healthcare leadership include:
How to prevent communication breakdown.
How to break through measure madness.
How to alleviate information overload and siloed reporting.
Integrating Analytics for Value-Based HealthcareEdgewater
Edgewater Healthcare Consulting presented at the Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) with client Southcoast Health on Integrating Analytics for Value-Based Healthcare
7 Strategies to Improve HEDIS Scores and Star RatingsHealthx
In recent years, achieving high scores on HEDIS® measures and Medicare Star Ratings has taken on greater importance for health plans. What was once nice-to-have for marketing purposes has become a must-have for operating in certain lines of business. Here’s why: NCQA Health Plan Accreditation, financial bonuses, and even a plan’s ability to enroll members can be affected by their ratings. If HEDIS Scores and Star Ratings are so important, why don’t more plans work to improve them?
Population Health Management, Predictive Analytics, Big Data and Text AnalyticsFrank Wang
HCAD 6635 Health Information Analytics session 12
Population Health Management Analytics
Predictive Analytics
Big Data and its potential applications in Healthcare
Text Analytics
Public Health Analytics
Integrate healthcare data from various sources to improve the quality of care...sambiswal
With EHR implementation, meaningful use, ACO and HIE interoperability, mergers, and interface engine conversion, the demand for data integration is endless. Scalable Health Data Integration services help healthcare organizations to quickly ingest, prepare and deliver clinical, patient, financial and operational data from diverse sources, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Leveraging heterogeneous datasets and securely linking them has the potential to improve healthcare by identifying the right treatment for the right individual.
Effective Healthcare Decision Support for Executives: Three Problems that Lea...Health Catalyst
In the high-pressured world of value-based care, healthcare leadership is more important than ever. Leaders need to make data-driven decisions and respond to the increasing demands of patients while cutting costs.
The right tools–ones that support today’s outcome-focused healthcare environment–can help leaders break through the noise to make effective decisions. This article shares three common problems faced by healthcare leadership and how Leading Wisely, an executive decision support tool helps them make informed decisions and guide their organizations forward. Three effective strategies for healthcare leadership include:
How to prevent communication breakdown.
How to break through measure madness.
How to alleviate information overload and siloed reporting.
Integrating Analytics for Value-Based HealthcareEdgewater
Edgewater Healthcare Consulting presented at the Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) with client Southcoast Health on Integrating Analytics for Value-Based Healthcare
Population Health Success: Three Ways to Leverage DataHealth Catalyst
As the healthcare industry continues to focus on value, rather than volume, health systems are faced with delivering quality care to large populations with limited resources. To implement population health initiatives and deliver results, it is critical that care teams build population health strategies on actionable, up-to-date data. Health systems can better leverage data within population health and drive long-lasting change by implementing three small changes:
Increase team members’ access to data.
Support widespread data utilization.
Implement one source of data truth.
Access to accurate, reliable data boosts population health efforts while maintaining cost and improving outcomes. With actionable analytics providing insight and guiding decisions, population health teams can drive real change within their patient populations.
Webinar Deck: The Changing Face of IT Outsourcing in the Healthcare Payer Mar...Everest Group
On June 5, Everest Group will host a one-hour webinar that will answer the following questions: What are the beneath-the-surface changes taking place in the payer IT industry? What are the trends and opportunities arising out of these changes? Why should CIOs start thinking of these transformational changes now? How should service providers assess their services portfolios and sales strategies from this transformational change perspective?
Explains about Evolution of IT in Healthcare, how analytics can make a difference and evolution of IT in healtcare. For more information visit: http://www.transformhealth-it.org/
Transforming Clinical Practice InitiativeCitiusTech
The Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) is designed to help small practices and clinicians achieve large-scale health transformation. The initiative is designed to support more than 140,000 clinician practices over four years duration in sharing, adapting and further developing their comprehensive quality improvement strategies. The TCPI is one part of a unique strategy advanced by the Affordable Care Act to strengthen the quality of patient care and manage health care expenditures, ultimately saving the taxpayer from substantial costs. This document describes the initiative in detail with the type of participants, eligibility and reporting requirements of the participants. Understanding the implementation of this initiative not only helps clinicians, but opens up a huge market for Healthcare IT companies offering the products and services like EHR implementation, Integration, EHR/ Data Migration, Implementation of HIE etc.
Accelerate Charge Capture Improvement with Health Catalyst VitalIntegrity™Health Catalyst
Health systems leave millions of unrealized dollars on the table due to suboptimal charge capture processes that lead to compliance issues and charge capture leakage. To survive on diminishing operating margins and maximize revenue for services rendered, organizations can turn to the Health Catalyst VitalIntegrity™ application. VitalIntegrity is a comprehensive charge capture solution that empowers health systems to take control of their financial future with insight into compliance issues, under- or over-charging, late or missing coding, and any other charge master-related issues. With detailed data into charge capture performance, health systems can increase earned revenue by remediating problems at their root cause and proactively eliminating threats to the revenue cycle.
Preparing for the Future: How one ACO is Using Analytics to Drive Clinical & ...Health Catalyst
Crystal Run Healthcare — a physician-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and one of the first ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program — is experiencing the long-anticipated shift toward more value-based reimbursement.
To ensure financial stability as they assume more risk, Crystal Run is implementing a strategy focused on rapid growth and aligning physician reimbursement with favorable patient outcomes. To effectively execute on this strategy they knew they needed to become more data-driven. Webinar attendees will learn how this ACO is using advanced analytics to execute on their population management and growth strategies with a focus on continuous improvement in the following areas:
Ensuring patient care aligns with evidence based practices
Reducing inappropriate clinical variation
Enhancing operational efficiency
Analyzing data from a “single source of truth” integrated from their EMR, billing, costing, patient satisfaction and other operational systems
Making “self-service analytics” available to decision-makers to decrease time to decision
Please join Greg Spencer, MD, Chief Medical & Chief Medical Information Officer and Scott Hines, MD, Chief Quality Officer and Medical Specialties Medical Director, Crystal Run, as they discuss how advanced analytics is helping position the ACO for continued success in an increasingly value-based reimbursement environment.
Data Visualization Dashboards: Three Ways to Maximize DataHealth Catalyst
With an unpredictable future due to COVID-19, health systems must leverage data to drive decision making at every organizational level. Data visualization dashboards allow health systems to optimize their data and create a data-driven culture by displaying large, real-time data sets in an easy-to-understand dashboard.
Health systems that rely on dashboard reporting maximize their data in three important ways:
Time to value. Decision makers do not have time to wait for manually-created reports; dashboards quickly convey information so leaders can make swift decisions.
Data democratization. Leveraging a central source of truth, dashboards allow leaders at every level to access the most updated, accurate data.
Digestible data. Analysts can configure dashboards to highlight important figures and trends, so high-level leaders can understand complex data without diving into spreadsheets.
Linking Clinical and Financial Data: The Key to Real Quality and Cost Outcome...Health Catalyst
Since accountable care took the healthcare industry by a storm in 2010, health systems have had to move from their predictable revenue streams based on volume to a model that includes quality measures. While the switch will ultimately improve both quality and cost outcomes, health systems now need the capability of tracking and analyzing the data from both clinical and financial systems. A late-binding enterprise data warehouse provides the flexible architecture that makes it possible to liberate both kinds of data to link it together to provide a full picture of trends and opportunities.
Resetting Payer-Provider Arrangements for COVID-19 and the Evolving Improveme...Health Catalyst
As the healthcare industry recovers from COVID-19, providers are re-evaluating the financial arrangements that motivate them to improve their processes while benefiting payers and patients.
With the pandemic driving lower provider volumes and straining hospital resources, the industry has a renewed urgency for policies that drive better outcomes while lowering cost and improving revenue. Moving forward, healthcare must reset its payer-provider performance standards to the post COVID-19 environment.
Renewed approaches to the following models will consider the impact of remote care, how to reimburse telehealth services, and the need for consistent payments to providers:
1. Pay for performance.
2. Bundled payments.
3. ACOs.
Prioritizing Healthcare Projects to Optimize ROIHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations have long relied on traditional benchmarking to compare their performance to others and determine where they can do better; however, to identify the highest ROI improvement opportunities and understand how to take action, organizations need more comprehensive data.
Next-generation opportunity analysis tools, such as Health Catalyst® Touchstone™, use machine learning to identify projects with the greatest need for improvement and the greatest potential ROI. Because Touchstone determines prioritization with data from across the continuum of care, users can drive improvement decisions with information appropriate to their patient population and the domains they’re addressing.
The 3 Must-Have Qualities of a Care Management SystemHealth Catalyst
Care management systems are defined in many ways, but the only effective system comprises three qualities:
1.) It’s comprehensive and includes a suite of tools to address all five core competencies of care management.
2.) It’s inclusive of all EMRs and other data sources to enable thorough communication and analysis.
3.) It’s analytics-driven design facilitates clinical decision making and workflow.
Ultimately, an effective system improves outcomes and becomes an indispensable tool for managing population health.
This article describes what drives successful care management, and reveals a suite of applications that aid care team members and patients through advanced algorithms and embedded analytics. Learn how technology is helping to develop appropriate interventions and improve clinical and financial outcomes.
Disease Surveillance Monitoring and Reacting to Outbreaks (like Ebola) with a...Health Catalyst
The current options for monitoring data to help identify disease outbreaks like Ebola are not great. These are: 1) Monitoring chief complaint/reason for admission data in ADT data streams. Although this is a real-time approach, the data is not codified and would require some degree of NLP. 2) Monitoring coded data collected in EHRs. The most precise option available, but the data is not available until after the patient encounter is closed, which would be too late in most cases. And 3) Monitoring billing data. This approach has the same problems as the two listed above, but it’s better than nothing in the absence of an EMR. All of these weaknesses can be solved with the use of a data warehouse.
Communication in Healthcare Culture: Eight Steps to Uphold Outcomes ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Healthcare leaders looking to establish and sustain a culture of large-scale outcomes improvement must communicate their health system’s values, beliefs, and norms throughout the entire organization. Effective communication spreads understanding of outcomes improvement, ensuring broad engagement and ongoing progress toward shared goals.
An eight-step strategy describes essential elements of organizational outcomes improvement communication plan:
Include a communications specialist on the outcomes improvement leadership team.
Analyze the stakeholders early and often.
Craft the central message around shared values.
Be a constant champion.
Commit to regular times and mechanisms for communication.
Make sure communication flows both ways.
Be transparent.
Be creative.
HXR 2016: Data Insights: Mining, Modeling, and Visualizations- Jennifer GambleHxRefactored
Data is useless if it fails to inform, which is precisely what data experts are furiously working on: turning raw informatics into meaningful narratives that begin to shift our standards. From the individual to the population level, data is leading both policy and better decision making in the clinical sphere.
Value-Based Purchasing: Four Need-to-Know Domains for 2018Health Catalyst
Health systems that meet the 2018 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program measures stand to benefit from CMS’s $1.9 billion incentive pool. Under the 2018 regulations, CMS continues to emphasize quality. To reduce the risk of penalty and vie for bonuses, it’s increasingly critical that organizations leverage data to build skills and processes that meet more demanding reimbursement measures.
To thrive under value-based payment, healthcare systems must understand CMS’s four quality domains, and their associated measures, for 2018:
Clinical Care
Patient- and Caregiver-Centered Experience of Care/Care Coordination
Efficiency and Cost Reduction
Safety
Introduction to Population Health Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Big Data a...Frank Wang
UNH HCAD 6635 Healthcare Analytics Session 12, the last session of Health Information Analytics. Details of the topics of this session will be covered in HCAD 6637 "Advanced Analytics and Health Data Mining"
Achieving Stakeholder Engagement: A Population Health Management ImperativeHealth Catalyst
To succeed in population health management (PHM), organizations must overcome barriers including information silos and limited resources. Due to the systemwide nature of these challenges, widespread stakeholder engagement is an imperative in population-based improvement.
An effective PHM stakeholder engagement strategy incorporates the following:
Includes as many stakeholders as possible at the beginning of the journey.
Meets the unique analytics and reporting needs of the organization.
Enables users to measure, and therefore manage, PHM outcomes.
Provides the real-time analytics value-based care requires.
Because everyone matters.
IBM Health and Social Programs Summit, October 2014
Stephen Morgan
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Carilion Clinic
Jianying Hu
Research Staff Member and Manager of Healthcare Analytics Research
IBM
Paul Grundy
Global Director of Healthcare Transformation
IBM
Population Health Success: Three Ways to Leverage DataHealth Catalyst
As the healthcare industry continues to focus on value, rather than volume, health systems are faced with delivering quality care to large populations with limited resources. To implement population health initiatives and deliver results, it is critical that care teams build population health strategies on actionable, up-to-date data. Health systems can better leverage data within population health and drive long-lasting change by implementing three small changes:
Increase team members’ access to data.
Support widespread data utilization.
Implement one source of data truth.
Access to accurate, reliable data boosts population health efforts while maintaining cost and improving outcomes. With actionable analytics providing insight and guiding decisions, population health teams can drive real change within their patient populations.
Webinar Deck: The Changing Face of IT Outsourcing in the Healthcare Payer Mar...Everest Group
On June 5, Everest Group will host a one-hour webinar that will answer the following questions: What are the beneath-the-surface changes taking place in the payer IT industry? What are the trends and opportunities arising out of these changes? Why should CIOs start thinking of these transformational changes now? How should service providers assess their services portfolios and sales strategies from this transformational change perspective?
Explains about Evolution of IT in Healthcare, how analytics can make a difference and evolution of IT in healtcare. For more information visit: http://www.transformhealth-it.org/
Transforming Clinical Practice InitiativeCitiusTech
The Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) is designed to help small practices and clinicians achieve large-scale health transformation. The initiative is designed to support more than 140,000 clinician practices over four years duration in sharing, adapting and further developing their comprehensive quality improvement strategies. The TCPI is one part of a unique strategy advanced by the Affordable Care Act to strengthen the quality of patient care and manage health care expenditures, ultimately saving the taxpayer from substantial costs. This document describes the initiative in detail with the type of participants, eligibility and reporting requirements of the participants. Understanding the implementation of this initiative not only helps clinicians, but opens up a huge market for Healthcare IT companies offering the products and services like EHR implementation, Integration, EHR/ Data Migration, Implementation of HIE etc.
Accelerate Charge Capture Improvement with Health Catalyst VitalIntegrity™Health Catalyst
Health systems leave millions of unrealized dollars on the table due to suboptimal charge capture processes that lead to compliance issues and charge capture leakage. To survive on diminishing operating margins and maximize revenue for services rendered, organizations can turn to the Health Catalyst VitalIntegrity™ application. VitalIntegrity is a comprehensive charge capture solution that empowers health systems to take control of their financial future with insight into compliance issues, under- or over-charging, late or missing coding, and any other charge master-related issues. With detailed data into charge capture performance, health systems can increase earned revenue by remediating problems at their root cause and proactively eliminating threats to the revenue cycle.
Preparing for the Future: How one ACO is Using Analytics to Drive Clinical & ...Health Catalyst
Crystal Run Healthcare — a physician-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and one of the first ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program — is experiencing the long-anticipated shift toward more value-based reimbursement.
To ensure financial stability as they assume more risk, Crystal Run is implementing a strategy focused on rapid growth and aligning physician reimbursement with favorable patient outcomes. To effectively execute on this strategy they knew they needed to become more data-driven. Webinar attendees will learn how this ACO is using advanced analytics to execute on their population management and growth strategies with a focus on continuous improvement in the following areas:
Ensuring patient care aligns with evidence based practices
Reducing inappropriate clinical variation
Enhancing operational efficiency
Analyzing data from a “single source of truth” integrated from their EMR, billing, costing, patient satisfaction and other operational systems
Making “self-service analytics” available to decision-makers to decrease time to decision
Please join Greg Spencer, MD, Chief Medical & Chief Medical Information Officer and Scott Hines, MD, Chief Quality Officer and Medical Specialties Medical Director, Crystal Run, as they discuss how advanced analytics is helping position the ACO for continued success in an increasingly value-based reimbursement environment.
Data Visualization Dashboards: Three Ways to Maximize DataHealth Catalyst
With an unpredictable future due to COVID-19, health systems must leverage data to drive decision making at every organizational level. Data visualization dashboards allow health systems to optimize their data and create a data-driven culture by displaying large, real-time data sets in an easy-to-understand dashboard.
Health systems that rely on dashboard reporting maximize their data in three important ways:
Time to value. Decision makers do not have time to wait for manually-created reports; dashboards quickly convey information so leaders can make swift decisions.
Data democratization. Leveraging a central source of truth, dashboards allow leaders at every level to access the most updated, accurate data.
Digestible data. Analysts can configure dashboards to highlight important figures and trends, so high-level leaders can understand complex data without diving into spreadsheets.
Linking Clinical and Financial Data: The Key to Real Quality and Cost Outcome...Health Catalyst
Since accountable care took the healthcare industry by a storm in 2010, health systems have had to move from their predictable revenue streams based on volume to a model that includes quality measures. While the switch will ultimately improve both quality and cost outcomes, health systems now need the capability of tracking and analyzing the data from both clinical and financial systems. A late-binding enterprise data warehouse provides the flexible architecture that makes it possible to liberate both kinds of data to link it together to provide a full picture of trends and opportunities.
Resetting Payer-Provider Arrangements for COVID-19 and the Evolving Improveme...Health Catalyst
As the healthcare industry recovers from COVID-19, providers are re-evaluating the financial arrangements that motivate them to improve their processes while benefiting payers and patients.
With the pandemic driving lower provider volumes and straining hospital resources, the industry has a renewed urgency for policies that drive better outcomes while lowering cost and improving revenue. Moving forward, healthcare must reset its payer-provider performance standards to the post COVID-19 environment.
Renewed approaches to the following models will consider the impact of remote care, how to reimburse telehealth services, and the need for consistent payments to providers:
1. Pay for performance.
2. Bundled payments.
3. ACOs.
Prioritizing Healthcare Projects to Optimize ROIHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations have long relied on traditional benchmarking to compare their performance to others and determine where they can do better; however, to identify the highest ROI improvement opportunities and understand how to take action, organizations need more comprehensive data.
Next-generation opportunity analysis tools, such as Health Catalyst® Touchstone™, use machine learning to identify projects with the greatest need for improvement and the greatest potential ROI. Because Touchstone determines prioritization with data from across the continuum of care, users can drive improvement decisions with information appropriate to their patient population and the domains they’re addressing.
The 3 Must-Have Qualities of a Care Management SystemHealth Catalyst
Care management systems are defined in many ways, but the only effective system comprises three qualities:
1.) It’s comprehensive and includes a suite of tools to address all five core competencies of care management.
2.) It’s inclusive of all EMRs and other data sources to enable thorough communication and analysis.
3.) It’s analytics-driven design facilitates clinical decision making and workflow.
Ultimately, an effective system improves outcomes and becomes an indispensable tool for managing population health.
This article describes what drives successful care management, and reveals a suite of applications that aid care team members and patients through advanced algorithms and embedded analytics. Learn how technology is helping to develop appropriate interventions and improve clinical and financial outcomes.
Disease Surveillance Monitoring and Reacting to Outbreaks (like Ebola) with a...Health Catalyst
The current options for monitoring data to help identify disease outbreaks like Ebola are not great. These are: 1) Monitoring chief complaint/reason for admission data in ADT data streams. Although this is a real-time approach, the data is not codified and would require some degree of NLP. 2) Monitoring coded data collected in EHRs. The most precise option available, but the data is not available until after the patient encounter is closed, which would be too late in most cases. And 3) Monitoring billing data. This approach has the same problems as the two listed above, but it’s better than nothing in the absence of an EMR. All of these weaknesses can be solved with the use of a data warehouse.
Communication in Healthcare Culture: Eight Steps to Uphold Outcomes ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Healthcare leaders looking to establish and sustain a culture of large-scale outcomes improvement must communicate their health system’s values, beliefs, and norms throughout the entire organization. Effective communication spreads understanding of outcomes improvement, ensuring broad engagement and ongoing progress toward shared goals.
An eight-step strategy describes essential elements of organizational outcomes improvement communication plan:
Include a communications specialist on the outcomes improvement leadership team.
Analyze the stakeholders early and often.
Craft the central message around shared values.
Be a constant champion.
Commit to regular times and mechanisms for communication.
Make sure communication flows both ways.
Be transparent.
Be creative.
HXR 2016: Data Insights: Mining, Modeling, and Visualizations- Jennifer GambleHxRefactored
Data is useless if it fails to inform, which is precisely what data experts are furiously working on: turning raw informatics into meaningful narratives that begin to shift our standards. From the individual to the population level, data is leading both policy and better decision making in the clinical sphere.
Value-Based Purchasing: Four Need-to-Know Domains for 2018Health Catalyst
Health systems that meet the 2018 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program measures stand to benefit from CMS’s $1.9 billion incentive pool. Under the 2018 regulations, CMS continues to emphasize quality. To reduce the risk of penalty and vie for bonuses, it’s increasingly critical that organizations leverage data to build skills and processes that meet more demanding reimbursement measures.
To thrive under value-based payment, healthcare systems must understand CMS’s four quality domains, and their associated measures, for 2018:
Clinical Care
Patient- and Caregiver-Centered Experience of Care/Care Coordination
Efficiency and Cost Reduction
Safety
Introduction to Population Health Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Big Data a...Frank Wang
UNH HCAD 6635 Healthcare Analytics Session 12, the last session of Health Information Analytics. Details of the topics of this session will be covered in HCAD 6637 "Advanced Analytics and Health Data Mining"
Achieving Stakeholder Engagement: A Population Health Management ImperativeHealth Catalyst
To succeed in population health management (PHM), organizations must overcome barriers including information silos and limited resources. Due to the systemwide nature of these challenges, widespread stakeholder engagement is an imperative in population-based improvement.
An effective PHM stakeholder engagement strategy incorporates the following:
Includes as many stakeholders as possible at the beginning of the journey.
Meets the unique analytics and reporting needs of the organization.
Enables users to measure, and therefore manage, PHM outcomes.
Provides the real-time analytics value-based care requires.
Because everyone matters.
IBM Health and Social Programs Summit, October 2014
Stephen Morgan
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Carilion Clinic
Jianying Hu
Research Staff Member and Manager of Healthcare Analytics Research
IBM
Paul Grundy
Global Director of Healthcare Transformation
IBM
Whitepaper developed for Adeptia, Inc. describing Adeptia's work with Lonza -- a leading supplier to the healthcare, lifesciences and pharmaceuticals industries-- on its advanced Global Business Analytics Program. Adeptia is a leading provider of innovative SOA cloud and on-premise business process integration/middleware solutions.
Annual report recently completed for Apna Ghar, a non-profit agency assisting and supporting those affected by domestic violence in the Chicago area since 1989. Work provided to Apna Ghar through the Taproot Foundation of Chicago.
Healthcare providers are transitioning to more powerful population health man...Persivia Inc
Healthcare organizations are implementing Population Health Management Platforms with integrated healthcare company's claims, electronic health records, laboratory, social determinants of health (SDoH), and other relevant information. To perform successfully and offer value-based care with superior healthcare outcomes, such platforms also develop cost and system performance criteria based on Medicare and Medicaid data points.
The Foundations of Success in Population Health ManagementHealth Catalyst
From hospital systems to large employers, organizations are increasingly taking on financial risk for the health of populations. Drivers of this trend include the update to the MSSP model, the recent CMS Primary Cares Initiative announcement, the increasing prevalence of the Medicare Advantage model, innovative partnerships in the self-insured employer space, and the proliferation of Medicaid ACOs. Yet while market pressures push organizations toward population risk, they don't necessarily help them succeed: most organizations are struggling to attain or sustain the dual imperatives of high-quality care and cost containment. A primary reason? Short-sighted and tactical approaches that don't provide the flexible data infrastructure and tools to adapt to emerging trends in population health—or to support short-term contractual requirements while building toward long-term success.
View this launch webinar to learn about Health Catalyst’s Population Health Foundations solution, a data and analytics-first starter set aimed at optimizing performance in value-based risk arrangements and providing the data ecosystem that will flex and adapt to complex needs of risk-bearing organizations. Solution services ensure that the strategic value of data is maximized to improve performance in risk contracts—and provide side-by-side subject matter expert partnership for establishing short- and long-term goals for population health management (PHM).
Built on Health Catalyst’s foundational technology and supported by the nationwide experience and perspective of its experts, the Population Health Foundations solution helps organizations leverage multiple data sources to understand their patient populations and create meaningful views of financial and clinical quality performance. As a starter set that organizations can build on based on their needs, the solution is designed to compensate for the known limitations of “black box” population health applications that fail to reveal the “why” of analytic insights and exacerbate the challenges of transforming quality, cost, and care. The Population Health Foundations solution delivers the essential analytic tools needed for success under value-based risk arrangements.
In these slides you can expect to:
- Review recent changes to the field of value-based care, and reactions and insights from the market
- Discover how the Population Health Foundations solution can act as a comprehensive, data-first analytics solution to support your population stratification and monitoring needs
- Understand how this solution functions as a foundational starter set for value-based care success, enabling clients to leverage all their data and other relevant population health tools
In the constantly changing healthcare marketplace, we can help you find the right technology to achieve better outcomes for patients. Download here for more on Healthcare IT.
The Able Health Quality Measures Solution: Why a Comprehensive Approach MattersHealth Catalyst
Able Health combines all claims and clinical data from a health system’s data sources (inside and outside of the hospital) into one location, allowing healthcare leaders to focus more on improving care and less on data management. The combination of a measures engine that calculates performance, a performance dashboard that displays measure performance, and a submission engine that submits data to payers, all powered by the Health Catalyst® Data Operating System (DOS™), enables health systems to identify areas for improvement based on one complete picture of quality performance.
Assessment 2
Quality Improvement Proposal
Overview:
Write a quality improvement proposal, 5–7 pages in length, that provides your recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT to include quality metrics that will help the organization qualify as an accountable care organization.
Health care has undergone a transformation since the release of the Institute of Medicine's 2000 report
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.
The report highlighted medical errors as a contributing factor leading to poor patient outcomes. The Institute of Medicine challenged organizations to implement evidence-based performance improvement strategies in order to improve patient quality and safety. Multiple governmental and regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), vowed to strengthen and improve incentives for participation, safety, quality, and efficiency in accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Health information technology (HIT) performs an essential role in improving health outcomes of individuals, the community, and populations. Health organizations, consumer advocacy groups, and regulatory committees have made a commitment to explore current and future opportunities that HIT offers to continue momentum to meet the Institute of Medicine's goal of improving safety and quality.
Understanding HIT is important to improving individual, community, and population access to health care and health information. HIT enables quick and easy access to information for both patients and providers. Accessible information has been shown to improve the patient care experience and reduce redundancies, thereby reducing health care costs.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to make recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT in ways that will help the hospital qualify as an ACO.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data.
Recommend ways to expand an organization's HIT to include quality metrics.
Identify potential problems that can arise with data gathering systems and outputs.
Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice.
Describe the main focus of information gathering in health care and how it contributes to guiding the development of organizational practice.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.
Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Reference
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Accelerate Healthy Outcomes with Data and AICognizant
Learn how leading healthcare organizations are accelerating decision making, improving business processes, enhancing user engagement, reducing costs and driving remarkable growth and profitability.
The Changing Role of Healthcare Data AnalystsHealth Catalyst
The healthcare industry is undergoing a sea change, and healthcare data analysts will play a central role in this transformation. This report explores how the evolution to value-based care is changing the role of healthcare data analysts, how data analysts’ skills can best be applied to achieve value-based objectives and, finally, how Health Catalyst’s most successful health system clients are making this cultural transformation happen in the real world.
Easing Labor Shortages and Staff Burnout with Data and AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
As healthcare organizations across the country face labor shortages, limited resources, and growing expenses, it’s never been more important to deploy valuable resources where they’ll be most impactful. Learn how predictive risk stratification helps organizations pinpoint their most vulnerable patients.
Health Catalyst® Introduces Closed-Loop Analytics™ ServicesHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations face provider dissatisfaction, lack of data integration, and excessive clicks to perform basic functions within the EHR. Closed-Loop Analytics™ aggregates data, circulates that data into new or existing workflows, and then surfaces best practice alerts at the decision point for physicians, clinical providers, and financial and operational teams. With clear calls to action throughout the workflow, organizations improve the utilization and effectiveness of analytics tools, yielding simplified workflows, decreased clicks, and improved outcomes.
CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool, holds immense potential to reshape medicine, agriculture, and our understanding of life. But like any powerful tool, it comes with ethical considerations.
Unveiling CRISPR: This naturally occurring bacterial defense system (crRNA & Cas9 protein) fights viruses. Scientists repurposed it for precise gene editing (correction, deletion, insertion) by targeting specific DNA sequences.
The Promise: CRISPR offers exciting possibilities:
Gene Therapy: Correcting genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis.
Agriculture: Engineering crops resistant to pests and harsh environments.
Research: Studying gene function to unlock new knowledge.
The Peril: Ethical concerns demand attention:
Off-target Effects: Unintended DNA edits can have unforeseen consequences.
Eugenics: Misusing CRISPR for designer babies raises social and ethical questions.
Equity: High costs could limit access to this potentially life-saving technology.
The Path Forward: Responsible development is crucial:
International Collaboration: Clear guidelines are needed for research and human trials.
Public Education: Open discussions ensure informed decisions about CRISPR.
Prioritize Safety and Ethics: Safety and ethical principles must be paramount.
CRISPR offers a powerful tool for a better future, but responsible development and addressing ethical concerns are essential. By prioritizing safety, fostering open dialogue, and ensuring equitable access, we can harness CRISPR's power for the benefit of all. (2998 characters)
Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
As gas accumulates in the lumen of the intestines, the bowel wall stretches and distends (flatulence). It is a common cause of abdominal fullness, pain, and cramping. Normally intestinal gas escapes through the mouth (belching) or the anus (passing of flatus)
FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sig
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Pediatric nurses play a vital role in the health and well-being of children. Their responsibilities are wide-ranging, and their objectives can be categorized into several key areas:
1. Direct Patient Care:
Objective: Provide comprehensive and compassionate care to infants, children, and adolescents in various healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, etc.).
This includes tasks like:
Monitoring vital signs and physical condition.
Administering medications and treatments.
Performing procedures as directed by doctors.
Assisting with daily living activities (bathing, feeding).
Providing emotional support and pain management.
2. Health Promotion and Education:
Objective: Promote healthy behaviors and educate children, families, and communities about preventive healthcare.
This includes tasks like:
Administering vaccinations.
Providing education on nutrition, hygiene, and development.
Offering breastfeeding and childbirth support.
Counseling families on safety and injury prevention.
3. Collaboration and Advocacy:
Objective: Collaborate effectively with doctors, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care for children.
Objective: Advocate for the rights and best interests of their patients, especially when children cannot speak for themselves.
This includes tasks like:
Communicating effectively with healthcare teams.
Identifying and addressing potential risks to child welfare.
Educating families about their child's condition and treatment options.
4. Professional Development and Research:
Objective: Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in pediatric healthcare through continuing education and research.
Objective: Contribute to improving the quality of care for children by participating in research initiatives.
This includes tasks like:
Attending workshops and conferences on pediatric nursing.
Participating in clinical trials related to child health.
Implementing evidence-based practices into their daily routines.
By fulfilling these objectives, pediatric nurses play a crucial role in ensuring the optimal health and well-being of children throughout all stages of their development.
Antibiotic Stewardship by Anushri Srivastava.pptxAnushriSrivastav
Stewardship is the act of taking good care of something.
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in 2015 to fill knowledge gaps and inform strategies at all levels.
ACCORDING TO apic.org,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
ACCORDING TO pewtrusts.org,
Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts in doctors’ offices, hospitals, long term care facilities, and other health care settings to ensure that antibiotics are used only when necessary and appropriate
According to WHO,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a systematic approach to educate and support health care professionals to follow evidence-based guidelines for prescribing and administering antimicrobials
In 1996, John McGowan and Dale Gerding first applied the term antimicrobial stewardship, where they suggested a causal association between antimicrobial agent use and resistance. They also focused on the urgency of large-scale controlled trials of antimicrobial-use regulation employing sophisticated epidemiologic methods, molecular typing, and precise resistance mechanism analysis.
Antimicrobial Stewardship(AMS) refers to the optimal selection, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial treatment resulting in the best clinical outcome with minimal side effects to the patients and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.
According to the 2019 report, in the US, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35000 people die. In addition to this, it also mentioned that 223,900 cases of Clostridoides difficile occurred in 2017, of which 12800 people died. The report did not include viruses or parasites
VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
to minimize the developme
Lead Press Release Focused Health Solutions - 7th Annual World Health Congress
1. Contact:
Brian Harrigan
(847) 910-5378
brian.harrigan@focusedhs.com
or
Susan Shaffer
(312) 209-3251
susan.shaffer@rcn.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Focused Health Solutions Enhances Analytics and Data Mining
Capabilities With New CareAnalyzer® Software
Adopts Powerful New Analytics Engine to Help Clients Maximize ROI From Population
Health Management Programs
WASHINGTON, DC -- Seventh Annual World Health Care Congress, April 12, 2010 – Focused
Health Solutions (FHS), a leading provider of customized population health management
services, today announced it has added the new DSTHS CareAnalyzer® Version 4.1 from DST
Health Solutions to its award-winning technology platform for integrated health management
solutions. CareAnalyzer® strengthens FHS’ sophisticated population data analysis capabilities
with new data mining features and reporting, including improved member risk profiling, better
identification of gaps in care and new provider profiling/performance evaluation.
“With CareAnalyzer®, Focused Health Solutions has turbocharged its data mining and
analytics capabilities, enabling our clients to maximize ROI from their FHS designed population
health management programs,” explained Michael Taylor, executive vice president of Strategy
and Business Development at FHS. “Its powerful identification capabilities and gaps in care
profiling tools enable us to work with our client data to stave off unnecessary medical costs by
proactively identifying high-risk patients for focused intervention,” he said.
“This software enhancement allows us to pinpoint up to 25 percent more unique members in a
client’s population for health management solutions,” he explained. “We also can mine member
data for co-morbidities and determine the best programs based on their potential cost
implications.”
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2. Focused Health Solutions Offers CareAnalyzer®…Add One
According to Heather Knowles, FHS’ vice president of Information Services & Technology:
“With this new software, we can mine and analyze data on members’ health status in both
prospective and retrospective ways. This means we can look at the claims data and identify high
risk members for the next 12 months. We can generate reports for clients that will identify high,
average and low risk groups while controlling for risk differences, and also can help improve
quality by identifying the manageable gaps in care based on nationally recognized practice
guidelines.” (Quality markers are based on HEDIS, the Health Effectiveness Data and Information
Set.)
Knowles added that “CareAnalyzer® further allows measurement of member compliance
compared to national benchmarks. It also identifies specific members not receiving recommended
services and compares compliant and non-compliant members to understand the cost and risk
implications of gaps in care.”
“The software also enables provider profiling to evaluate physician/provider effectiveness in
the areas of preventive, acute, and chronic care using the standardized set of HEDIS/NCQA
performance measures. Armed with this data, quality of care discussions can be initiated,
ultimately helping improve compliance and patient access to quality care,” Knowles explained.
“With these new analytic capabilities,” Taylor concluded, “Focused Health Solutions will be
able to deliver the highest level of targeted interventions through its customized population health
management programs – and employers reap the benefits of significant return on investment.”
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3. Focused Health Solutions Offers CareAnalyzer®…Add Two
About Focused Health Solutions
Focused Health Solutions is a leading national provider of customized population health
management services. Founded in 1999, the Deerfield, IL based company combines innovative
data analysis, condition specific clinical pathways, tele-health technology, Health Risk
Assessments and deep clinical expertise to reduce healthcare costs and improve health. Since its founding,
Focused Health Solutions has been the market leader in the opt-in approach to condition management. The
FHS population health management model integrates sophisticated systems and experienced personnel to
produce quantifiable clinical and economic benefits for its program participants and clients.
Focused Health Solutions is a proud member of the Disease Management Association of America
(DMAA), the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), Medical Wellness
Association (MWA) and the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO).
To learn more, visit the company’s website at http://www.focusedhealthsolutions.com
About DST Health Solutions
DST Health Solutions, LLC, delivers systems and services that help improve efficiency, reduce operational
costs, increase speed to market, and facilitate medical cost management and price containment.
Clients include commercial health plans, consumer-directed plans, government plans (Medicare
Advantage, Medicare Part D and Medicaid) and physician practices. DST Health Solutions’
enterprise applications and outsourcing services include claims processing, member and provider
management, benefit plan management, new product development, care management and medical
management, and decision support/analytics. DST Health Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
DST Systems, Inc. For more information about DST Health Solutions, call 800-272-4799, email
informrequests@dsthealthsolutions.com or visit www.disthealthsolutions.com.